Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-12
The Buffalo Wallow World Succumbs.

WSSVSTii JOuInaiiSt All Ills iTuitieSb oLOTti
to resist the inevitable:
with this number the time seems t.
have fully arrived at which to cease the
publication of this paper. Many of ON
subscribers will not even get this issue
To be brief about it, we were not allow
ed to remove our print paper from thu
Adams Express office this week, al
though we have never in these column,
said aught against Mr.. Adams or hi
justly celebrated express. We hav,
paid many a dollar into the G. o. ID. de
partment ofthis mans express company
Before We came west our physician tolC
us we could not live without cod live
oil, and indeed he was right, for hav'
we not been a G. o. ID. liver oil the tim,
since we started this paper!
"The last remark is offered as an in
suit to every unpaid subscriber: Paic
mp subscribers may omit it.
"But let us seriously review the past
two years history Of the world. What
have We not done to encourage the in
FAINT industries and advance the tagging
m ofBuffalo Wallow.?
"Have we not at the i~nstigation of
leading citizens here, doomed the con
dition Of trade when traffic was dead,
and currency nothing but a hollow
mockery?
"Have we not, through the columns
of the World, asked that a bank be es-
tablished here at once, when, as a mat
ter of fact, for a year the p~ostoffice has
had to sell stamps and take the pay out
of the store?
"Have we not been gay and frolic-
some in these columns that the world at
large might not tumble TO the woe
within usp Have We not joked and
punned and frolicked in print, when the
shrill north wind was whispering abroad
with its icy breath, che had no under
clothing whatever"
Other newspaper men, with fewer
brains and in better towns, have grown
afluent. Low-browed journalists else,
where, in towns that are populated by
human beings, have done well, while
we with a fatigued and yapid constitu
ency, have thrown away our two bes'
years, and now go forth with only wha'
is exempt from seizure and sale.
"We kept quiet when the convention
made its nomination for member Of as
sernbly last year, and assisted in hi
election because he was a Buffalo Wa
low citizen, well knowing ever ther
that he would be the first man TO puI
himself on the fve-cent counter. We
know he would take anything from G
pass to an unguarded watermelon. But
everybody said we should stand by the
nominations, especially sc long as the
nominee was a man who was a man who
lived here. So he went to the legisla.
ture, worked for the better protection
Of muskrats, and downed his neighbors
on every corner. His pay was $3.50 fol
the season, out Of which he succeeded
in paying $500 board and 5000 whisky
bills, after which he found that by 6
system of rigid economy he had still
enough left to purchase a two momen
horse and evade the grand jury.
"All through the campaign his imita
ton brains hoated around in a pool o
red-eyed rum, like the specimens in
doctors Office dancing on the bosom o
a jar of alcohol. Then he would submit
a speech To-day, as a result of on,
toll, he is gay and free in Canada, Will,
we go forth to begin life's battles one,
more with the bitter memory Of havin.
assisted an intellectual angle-worm int,
n place where he could market hi
MODIFICATION soul.
"We have stood by the people O
Buffalo Wallow in every way while ",
have been running this paper. We
have maintained that good order pre-
vailed here night and day, when the
facts would hardly warrant this state,
ment. We have pointed with pride to
the peaceful record of our town when
the low refrain of the six-shooter, COO
ing to it's mate, came stealing through
the night. We have asked the pious
and prudish east to come and dwell
with us, when we we'll knew that ne
stranger ever walked the length Of oul
street in a plug hat and lived to tell hi
friends about it, unless the hat wa.
made Of boiler iron.
"We have also doomed our g~lorion,
climate when it had nothing to warran
endorsement. We have written page
after page about our pure, bracinl
mountain air, when we had been livins
o Italian sunsets and ozone,for two
days. We have written about remoneti
cation and bi-metallism and bond calls
when our stomach was clamoring loudly
for a meek and loNly picked pigs
foot.
$50 it has gone on. One hundred and
four times the World has gone forth
from this Office to beg for a church
festival, to praise the feeble song OF a